diff --git a/examples/package-example/Main.scala b/examples/package-example/Main.scala
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..61e6b631
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/package-example/Main.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+package package_example
+object Main{
+  def main( args: Array[String] ): Unit = {
+    println( Console.GREEN ++ "Hello World" ++ Console.RESET )
+  }
+}
diff --git a/examples/package-example/build/build.scala b/examples/package-example/build/build.scala
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3874507a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/package-example/build/build.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package package_example_build
+import java.nio.file._
+import java.security.MessageDigest
+import cbt._
+class Build(val context: Context) extends BaseBuild with PackageJars {
+  override def groupId = "org.example"
+  override def version = "1.0.0"
+
+  def hash(file: Path): String = {
+    val digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
+    val in = Files.newInputStream(file)
+    try {
+      val chunk = new Array[Byte](4096)
+      while(in.read(chunk) > 0) {
+        digest.update(chunk)
+      }
+    } finally {
+      in.close
+    }
+    val bytes = digest.digest()
+    val builder = new StringBuilder(bytes.length * 2);
+    for(b <- bytes) {
+      builder.append(f"$b%02x")
+    }
+    builder.toString
+  }
+
+  override def run = {
+    val pass1 = super.`package`.map(f => hash(f.toPath))
+    lib.clean(cleanFiles, true, false, false, false)
+    transientCache.clear()
+    val pass2 = super.`package`.map(f => hash(f.toPath))
+
+    assert(
+      pass1 == pass2,
+      "The checksums of jars generated during two separate builds did not match. " +
+        "The build is not reproducible."
+    )
+    ExitCode.Success
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/stage2/Lib.scala b/stage2/Lib.scala
index 8801b33a..a237409e 100644
--- a/stage2/Lib.scala
+++ b/stage2/Lib.scala
@@ -257,6 +257,13 @@ final class Lib(val logger: Logger) extends
     m
   }
 
+  /** Create a jar from the given files and optionally make it
+    * executable by providing a main class.
+    *
+    * Note that all build-time related information is stripped from
+    * the jar, in order to make it reproducible on an independent
+    * system. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for more
+    * information on reproducible builds. */
   def createJar( jarFile: File, files: Seq[File], mainClass: Option[String] = None ): Option[File] = {
     deleteIfExists(jarFile.toPath)
     if( files.isEmpty ){
@@ -264,13 +271,19 @@ final class Lib(val logger: Logger) extends
     } else {
       jarFile.getParentFile.mkdirs
       logger.lib("Start packaging "++jarFile.string)
-      val jar = new JarOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(jarFile), createManifest(mainClass))
+      val jar = new JarOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(jarFile))
       try{
+        val manifestEntry = new JarEntry( "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF" )
+        manifestEntry.setTime(0l)
+        jar.putNextEntry(manifestEntry)
+        createManifest(mainClass).write(jar)
+        jar.closeEntry
+
         assert( files.forall(_.exists) )
         autoRelative(files).collect{
           case (file, relative) if file.isFile =>
             val entry = new JarEntry( relative )
-            entry.setTime(file.lastModified)
+            entry.setTime(0l)
             jar.putNextEntry(entry)
             jar.write( readAllBytes( file.toPath ) )
             jar.closeEntry
diff --git a/test/test.scala b/test/test.scala
index 9cb7fd9c..63bcabcf 100644
--- a/test/test.scala
+++ b/test/test.scala
@@ -506,6 +506,11 @@ object Main{
       assert(res.exit0)
     }
 
+    {
+      val res = runCbt("../examples/package-example", Seq("run"))
+      assert(res.exit0)
+    }
+
     /*
     // currently fails with
     // java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: scalafix.rewrite.ScalafixMirror.fromMirror $anon#typeSignature requires the semantic api